[DotGNU]Minor glitches in 0.6.2 on Windows

[Maciek]

Hello,

I've recently built the 0.6.2 release on Windows/Mingw, and I thought 
I'll share my experience with you:

First of all, it was impossible to compile pnet-0.6.2 with the latest 
Cygwin (I haven't tried with previous versions though).
After specifying "-no-cygwin" option to configure script, the make 
process would still insist on using Cygwin includes such as 
sys/utsname.h, langinfo.h, locale.h, etc., which are not present in 
mingw include directory. I think the problem is that the configure 
script erroneously detected Cygwin environment even though it received 
the '-disable-cygwin' option.

Building on the latest Mingw was much more pleasant. After downloading 
some required packages (libiconv, zlib, bison, flex - please mention 
this on requirements page) and starting the make process, some minor 
problems came up:

1 - It seems the autoconfig file wasn't prepared for running on pure 
mingw (i.e. not as part of cygwin) and didn't enforce using wsock32 for 
SOCKETLIBS. The objects that failed were 'ilverify.exe' and 'ilrun.exe'. 
I've fixed it by compiling those files by hand (with '-lwsock32') 
because I'm not familiar with using autoconf. If someone can fix it, it 
would also be a good idea to perhaps skip '-lm' if it's not necessary.

2 - Second problem occured in installation phase. The linker couldn't 
create a hard link from 'ilsize' to '/usr/local/bin/cli-unknown-size' 
claiming that 'ilsize' cannot be found, even though 'ilsize.exe' was in 
the directory. This problem repeated with other executables. What can be 
done about this issue? Is it Mingw problem?

That's about it.. The tests run correctly, except for some exceptions in 
the Forms sample.

I hope the wsock32 problem can be corrected before 0.6.4 release. I'd 
submit a patch myself but I'm not proficient in autoconfig and Unix 
shell scripting.

Thank you for your time and DotGNU :)

Regards,

Maciek Plewa